What are the precautions for inferior turbinate ablation?

The air quality in our daily life is getting worse and worse, and more and more people are suffering from rhinitis. Everyone knows that although rhinitis is not a serious disease, it will have a great impact on people's daily life and work, and may also affect people's brain thinking and breathing. Rhinitis needs to be actively treated. The more common method of treating rhinitis is turbinate ablation. What are the precautions for inferior turbinate ablation?

Inferior turbinate ablation precautions

1) Strengthen physical exercise. You can choose aerobic exercises such as jogging, Tai Chi, and badminton. Persistence can enhance physical fitness and improve the body's disease resistance; promote blood circulation, so that the blood flow in the nasal concha is not easily blocked and congested.

(2) Starting from the warm summer, wash your face and wipe your nose with cold water all year round to enhance your body’s resistance to cold, especially your nose. When a cold wave hits or the temperature changes suddenly, take care to keep warm. Dry your hair after taking a shower before going to bed to prevent a cold. Remember to wear a mask when appropriate.

(3) Pay attention to the cleanliness of the air in the working and living environment, and avoid contact with dust and chemical gases, especially harmful gases.

(4) Avoid eating raw or cold food, smoking, drinking alcohol, and spicy or stimulating food. Take appropriate vitamin supplements and try to choose foods that are easily digestible and absorbable.

(5) Use warm water or saline to clean the nasal cavity and remove the scabs. Then use a cotton swab to dip in raw honey, AD cod liver oil, etc. and apply it on the surface of the enlarged nasal concha. Do this once a day for a long time until the pain and itching in the nasal cavity disappears, there is no secretion or scab, and the sense of smell is restored.

(6) Perform self-care massage on the nose. Use the index fingers of both hands to massage the bridge of the nose at the inner corner of the eye at the same time, from top to bottom, and repeat 60 times. Use the middle finger to rub the Yingxiang point (level with the lower edge of the nose wing, about 1 cm on both sides of the nose wing), and massage in a circular motion until you feel a sore sensation. Repeat 60 times. Massage can be repeated 3-4 times a day.

How much does turbinate ablation cost?

Turbinate ablation is mainly used to treat chronic hypertrophic rhinitis. Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis may cause severe and persistent nasal congestion. The swollen posterior end of the inferior turbinate compresses the pharyngeal opening of the Eustachian tube, causing ear stuffiness, tinnitus and hearing loss. Long-term mouth breathing and irritation of nasal secretions can cause pharyngitis. Headache, dizziness and other discomforts may occur. Nasal examination revealed hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the nasal mucosa, nodular hyperplasia on the surface of the inferior turbinate mucosa, which was hard to the touch and had poor contraction effect with 1% furan solution. For those who do not respond to drug treatment, low-temperature plasma radiofrequency ablation can be considered. Since the temperature of the plasma blade is low during use, it causes less damage to the surrounding soft tissue. It also has a local hemostatic effect and the local reaction after surgery is mild.